2 months ago
Budapest, HungarySenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize backend infrastructure for a large-scale real-time data platform.
- Develop highly scalable services processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second and tens of terabytes of new data daily.
- Own features end-to-end from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Solve complex distributed-systems challenges with experienced software engineers.
- Build platforms supporting real-time decision-making, experimentation, and marketplace performance.
- Design and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to identify system-health issues before they affect users.
- Influence products delivering content recommendations across the open web.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience developing production systems with Java or another object-oriented programming language, preferably Java 8+.
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and high-performance backend services.
- Strong production experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of web architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and scalable system design.
- Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, or other large-scale data technologies.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or an equivalent technical degree.
- Preferred experience with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/logging, infrastructure cost optimization, machine learning, algorithms, data mining, real-time bidding systems, Spark, or HDFS.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including health benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, gym partnerships, parking, and other location-specific perks.
- Hybrid work schedule with three days in the Budapest office and the option to work in-office more often.
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About Taboola
Taboola builds an AI-driven native advertising and content recommendation platform for publishers, advertisers, and device makers, including the Realize ad-buying platform. The public company, founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, trades on NASDAQ and FRA, partners with publishers such as NBC News and Yahoo and OEMs like Samsung and Xiaomi, and its network reaches roughly 600 million daily active users.